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Peculium

with the fathers or masters consent a little property or stock of ones own any exclusive personal or separate property

Owelty

the process owelty, according to which, the rights and interests of the parties in the property will be separated, only by allowing one of them to retain the whole of the suit property on payment of just

Tenement

the estate is as well as the land. Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Real Property.' Local authorities sometimes refer to separately rated parts of houses or flats s tenements.1. Properly (esp. land) held by freehold; an estate or holding

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Charging order

limitations. See Cordery on Solicitors; Atkinson on Solicitors' Lien. Partners.--Under s. 23 of the (English) Partnership Act, 1890, separate judgment creditors of a partner may obtain an order charging his interest in the partnership property: the other

will

a joint will, but a joint will need not contain reciprocal provisions. mutual will : one of two separate wills that share reciprocal provisions for the disposition of property in the event of death by one of

Marumakkattayam law

partition of the family estate may be made, but items of the family property may by agreement be separately enjoyed by the Members. On death the interest of a member devolved by survivorship. Management of the family

postnuptial agreement

is made between spouses regarding the division of marital property and that is usually formulated in contemplation of separation or divorce

avulsion

of land by flood or change in the course of a body of water ;esp : one that separates a portion from one person's property and joins it to the property of another compare accretion

Protection order

wife deserted by her husband may obtain from a magistrate or the Divorce Court an order to protect property acquired and to be acquired by her since desertion, as if she were a feme sole; after the

dotal

dotal [Latin dotalis, from dot- dos dowry] : of, relating to, or being separate property brought to a marriage by the wife

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